I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Myself I must remake.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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